5 August 2026

Akeneo Summer Release 2025: What You Need to Know About the New Features

Every year, Akeneo’s summer release is a highlight for PIM and product management professionals. The Summer Release 2025 is no exception: it introduces significant advancements in artificial intelligence, data quality, collaboration, and connectivity. As a certified Akeneo integrator, DATASOLUTION offers a comprehensive breakdown of this update to help you assess its benefits and strategic value.

What you’ll learn in this article:

A structured summary of the key new features in the Akeneo Summer Release 2025
The Tangible Benefits of Integrated Artificial Intelligence
Functional Changes for Product and E-Commerce Teams
What’s New in Connectors, the App Store, and Cloud Performance
What This Update Changes (and What It Doesn’t)
How DATASOLUTION Can Help You Implement Akeneo

Akeneo Summer 2025: A Release Focused on the Product Experience

More than just a patch or fix, the Summer Release 2025 is a natural extension of Akeneo’s strategy: to offer a smarter, more collaborative, and better-integrated PIM. With this release, the company is accelerating its efforts in artificial intelligence and data reliability.

A redesigned user interface for a smoother experience

The user experience has been improved through a clearer, faster interface designed for non-technical users. The redesign of certain user flows—particularly task management and navigation within product families—delivers immediate productivity gains.

Artificial Intelligence at the Heart of PIM

A major new feature in this release is the native integration of generative artificial intelligence. This now enables:

Automatic Suggestions for Descriptions, Titles, and Attributes
Detection of incomplete or inconsistent fields
Generating multilingual content from existing sources

These features are available to customers of the Serenity and Growth editions. They enable faster, more consistent product enrichment that is less prone to human error.

Functional changes for the product teams

The 2025 release also enhances the PIM’s capabilities in key areas of product organization.

Product Data Quality Insight: Greater Accuracy, Better Control

The product data quality analysis module has received a major update:

More Detailed and Contextualized Scoring
A more intuitive way to visualize the issues that need to be corrected
Automated Alerts for Anomalies

This allows teams to proactively manage product quality and focus their efforts on the most strategic content.

Better-Integrated Collaborative Workflows

The workflow management tool is being enhanced with the introduction of:

Tasks that can be assigned to users or roles
Contextual comments on product pages
Greater control over shared views

These developments promote coordination among the data, marketing, catalog, and e-commerce teams.

Connectivity and Performance: An Increasingly Open PIM

Expanded ecosystem through the Akeneo App Store

Akeneo is expanding the range of options in its App Store with new connectors and improved versions for:

Shopify
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
BigCommerce
And other CMSs and DAM platforms

Rights management and the security of third-party connections have also been improved.

Enhanced cloud performance and scalability

Akeneo has worked on the technical aspects of performance, including:

Shorter import/export times
Optimized Management of Large Catalogs
Improved scalability in the cloud, particularly for the Serenity edition

These improvements enable large enterprises and complex organizations to maintain high performance, even with millions of product SKUs.

What this release doesn’t change (and it’s important to know)

While this Summer Release introduces many new features, it also preserves Akeneo’s technical and structural fundamentals. Here’s what remains unchanged.

The PIM architecture remains stable

The structure of families, channels, and locations, as well as the functioning of the data model, remain unchanged.
You won’t have to redesign your existing templates to take advantage of the new features.

API compatibility is ensured

Existing REST APIs remain fully compatible.
No major changes are required for the existing connectors (e-commerce, ERP, DAM).

The publication schedule remains the same

The release is automatically deployed to Serenity and Growth customers.
Customers using the on-premises version will need to schedule their update manually.

The Community edition is still being maintained

Akeneo continues to support its open-source edition, which, however, does not include the latest AI or cloud-native features.

A Strategic Opportunity for Brands

The Summer Release 2025 solidifies Akeneo’s position as a core solution in the product value chain. It enables:

Reducing time-to-market through intelligent automation
Improved data quality and product reliability
Stronger collaboration among teams
Greater omnichannel consistency through expanded integrations

This version is designed to improve efficiency while maintaining a sturdy base.

DATASOLUTION: Your Partner for a Stress-Free Akeneo Deployment

As a certified integrator and long-standing partner of Akeneo, DATASOLUTION supports you in:

An Audit of Your Data and Your PIM Maturity
The Custom Implementation of the Akeneo PIM
Integration with your existing tools (ERP, CMS, DAM, marketplaces, etc.)
Training and Change Management for Your Teams

Our in-depth knowledge of the Akeneo ecosystem allows us to harness the full potential of new features while ensuring the sustainability and scalability of your project.